Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-07-28


The reunion OF the Custer Brigade will
be held at Nicksburg September 20, II
and -. The citizens propose to simply
! fasten the roof on the town, and let every.
! thing else stay wide open on those dates.
James Stanley, James II. Cloyes and
Ed Gray, employees of the Michigan buggy
company at Kalamazoo, have taken a
bonus of $4,000 in land and building at
Des MOines, la, and will build bueges
| there shortly.
| The road carpenters department Of the
Lake Shore road is TO be removed from
Adrian to Elkhart, Ind. The department
has been in Adrian for many years, and
this change will throw Il good many men
out of employment
Mrs. Clark Stowell. wife of n well known
Raisin township farmer, was found on
Main street in Adrian the other afternoon
in state Of insanity. Her dcmenta is
attributed tn the heat and her sorrow over
the loss of dear relatives.
Gogebic and OntOnagon counties have
settled their war; each agreeing 10 pay
half the indebtedness of the old county.
They both take swamp lands within their
own boundaries and Ontonagon retains the
court house, jail and poor farm.
The Michigan railway passenger agents
have agreed to grant half rates to the sol
dierS and sailors gatherings at lonia
Three Rivers and Adrian, and one and
one-third rates to all state camp meetings,
with one-half rates on two days.
VIM. Patrick's salt block, four box cars
and 5000 barrels of salt were burned in
Midland the other night between $ and .
o'clock, cntailing loss of from ST.. 900 10
4 xtsifI A, al In
is IA severe one to the salt interests of Mid
land.
The celery men at Kalamazoo have
agreed not to ship for less than 20 cents
per dozen and the growers will not sell to
shippers for less than ID cents. The
drought has bad effect upon the crop,
rain being necessary to bleaching the
stalks.
The single manufacturers association
of Michigan has decided to advance prices
to So 30 and $3.50. with no distinction be-
tween green timber and seconds. A diff
ference of so cents has also been decided
on between Is and l6-inch shingles, iigur-
ing 800 pounds as the proper weight for
16-inch.
The weekly civil service crop report
states that corn and potatoes are affected
Dl INC lOJ NtulItI. Dul the odlS are uOlup
well. The wheat harvest is nearly finished
and the barley and rye harvest begun. The
report OH the yield of wheat is slightly be-
low the average and the apple crop promises
large yield.
John Waliinger, a German of Monroe,
aged 60, went home the other day drunk.
He began to abuse his wife at once, and
taking up a shotgun chased her from the
HaI fn fa
Walling / shot and the charge struck her
in the back. Her recovery is doubtful and
Walinger is under arrest.
The program for the fourth annual re-
union of the G.. A. r., association of
southeastern Michigan at Adrian has been
received. The encampment will COM
mencc August 80 and close September 2.
If all the great men are present who are
advertised there will he one of the grand
est celebrations ever held in Michigan.
Recent action at New York of the
freight classification committee increases
the tariff on road carts 100 per cent in
some instances and $50 per cent in others.
Manufacturers in Kalamazoo, which is the
greatest center of this enterprise in the
United States. think that these rates will
reduce their output only so per cent.
II. w. STURDY, was shot through the fleshy
part of both thighs in a room in Surby's
hotel, at Goguac lake. the other morning,
10y lad named Beidher of about the same
age. He pointed 22-caliber pistol at
Surby in fun supposing it was empty.
The injury is painful, but not dangerous.
The Sault Ste. Marie correspondent of
Marquette Mining Journal says that work
on the 800" bridge is pushing forward
rapidly. The piers are Of solid masonry
faced with Drummond Island granite.
-Four of these piers are finished. The
bridge and trestle will he about mile
long. The bridge will be completed by
November /.
Eli Parker, a farmer living just outside
The city limits of Charlotte, was gored to
death by a bull few days. Scores of
people fastened TO the place and found
Parker lying near the barn, where the bull
had left him after being driven away, all
torn TO pieces. A terrible struggle must
have taken place for the fence was knock
cd down for several lengths.
A grand celebration of the anniversary
of the emancipation of the slaves in the
West Indies and the south will be held i'm
Battle Creek, August 2, under the au-
spices of the Strother lodge No. 3, +. ~ A.
NJ. Gov. Luce will be present and ex-
Gov. Beveridge Of Illinois is expected.
Athletic sports. addresses and a masque-
rade ball make up the program.
Mrs. l.. A. Thomas has a novelty called
the resurrection plant, sent to her 10y
friends I'm Mexico. This little curiosity,
when laid away. will dry and curl up in
TO small dead looking thing, but on be-
ing placed I'm a vase of water will again
unfold into thing of life and beauty. 1t
is said IL may be kept i'm this way for
hundreds of years. This specimen is
rarity and, small as it is, cost S3.--Lapeer
Clarion.
On the Cadillac section of the Toledo,
laborers threw down their shoves and de-
handed an advance in wages of Is cents
per day. They gained their point and
will hereafter receive S1.5O per day, which
is from to 10 cents more than is now
paid in the mills in Cadillac for the same
class of help. Men and teams receive
So. SO per day, and an abundance of them
are at work.
There having been some misunderstand-
ing as to the disposition of the charges of
unprofessional conduct preferred against
DIR, Kellogg of Battle Creek, the report Of
| the judicial council made at the last meet
ing of the state medical society Is quoted
to prove the Doctors complete exoneration
| as follows: 1.-THE complainants have made
a full and unconditional withdrawal of all
charges against DIR. Kellogg; the judicial
council dismissed the case"
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